Squires Planning Ltd has received accreditation from the Good Business Charter (GBC) and has joined companies in seeking to raise the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers.

Squires Planning pride themselves in being a truly independent planning...

Fortunately, not all development requires planning permission and there are a variety of works that can be done to most dwellings without it.

As a general rule, most types of development require planning permission. However, ‘development’ can appear to be a broad, vague term. The Town and Country...

Do you have land that you would like to develop in the South Downs National Park?

The South Downs National Park Authority have today launched two Calls for Sites...

The Call for Sites is an early opportunity to suggest sites within the National Park for development and offsetting for now and up...

Uttlesford District Council has been successful in its funding bid to produce a district-wide design code.

Design Codes are a distinct form of detailed design guidance comprising a set of written and graphic rules that establish with precision the two- and three-dimensional design elements of a...

The High Court ([2022] EWHC 2051 (Admin)) has confirmed that houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) falling under Use Classes C4 benefit from the same permitted development rights that are available to C3 dwellinghouses, so long as they are no flats. This means that certain works to HMOs such as some...

Brighton & Hove City Council have received the Inspector’s Final Report on the Examination of the City Plan Part Two which contains the Inspector’s assessment and recommendations.

The City Plan Part Two seeks to support the implementation and delivery of the City Plan Part One to built on the...